The United States assures that it will buy "little Argentine beef" and warns about foot-and-mouth disease !!!

The possibility of the United States re-importing Argentine beef has generated anticipation in the agro-export sector, but from Washington they have already clarified that the commercial flow would be reduced. In an interview with CNBC, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, affirmed: “We won’t be buying much” and focused on the sanitary controls due to the risk of foot-and-mouth disease. During the conversation, Rollins explained that the U.S. consumes around 12 million metric tons of beef annually, of which 10 million are locally produced. “The other two million are produced abroad and there are different parts of that. There is McDonald’s and ground beef versus actual muscle cuts, which are for many Americans the healthy part of this,” she detailed. The official pointed out that the talks with Argentina are part of a broader framework promoted by President Donald Trump, who, according to her, “has mentioned a couple of times” the possibility of opening the market to ...